1. Congo's Environmental Paradox
   Potential and Predation in a Land of Plenty
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2016
   Congo has natural resources the world needs. Its forests count in the fight against global climate change and Congo's farmers could feed all of Africa's population. The Inga hydroelectric site has the potential to light up the entire continent. Congo's incredible natural wealth has the potential to contribute to development in this troubled central African country -- but structural problems, cultural factors, poor governance and predation remain serious challenges.
2. Congo's War, Women's Holocaust
   Against The Current vol. 133
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2008
   Which current war has taken more lives than the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur put together?
3. Connexions Library: Africa Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
4. Discovery of mass graves highlights bloody scramble for Congo’s resources
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   Last week, a team with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights together with personnel from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) discovered scores of mass graves in Kasai Province, a south central region of the Congo currently wracked by bloody conflict between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and Kamuina Nsapu, a local tribal militia.
5. Dissecting Congo's Modern Holocaust
   Against The Current vol. 142
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   A primary aim of Gerard Prunier’s work is to detangle and lay bare the complexities of interests, alliances and deep-seeded antagonisms that have made the Congo crisis so brutal. He does this well, without simplifying the narrative for easy comprehension.
6. Embassy Row Online
   Resource Type: Website
   Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
7. Killing Hope 
   U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
8. King Leopold's Ghost 
   A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1999
   The brutal story of Belgian colonialism in the Congo, resulting in the death of between five and eight million Africans.
9. Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2009
   A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
10. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 30, 2016
    Conflict of interest
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    This issue of Other Voices shines a light on the murky world of conflict of interest, the hidden reality that often underlies appearances of neutrality, objectivity, and due process. Conflicts of interest are inherent in capitalism, a system founded on the premise that the state and society should be subordinated to economic self-interest and the accumulation of private wealth. Scientists who are supposed to be studying the effects of GMOs are funded by agribusiness corporations. Doctors who receive money from pharmaceutical companies write articles promoting the drugs produced by those companies. Decisions about pipelines are made by regulators who have spent years working in the oil industry, and who will be heading back to jobs in the industry after their stint 'regulating' it. Politicians receive campaign funds from corporate lobbyists.
11. Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
12. Press for Conversion #43
    December 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
    
13. A Revolutionary Speech: Patrice Lumumba and the Birth of the Republic of Congo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence leader and first democratically elected Prime Minister, was executed on 17th January, 1961. He had been beated and tortured in a culmination of two assassination plots by the Belgian government and the CIA, ordered directly by President Dwight Eisenhower to 'eliminate' the charismatic leader, with the cooperation of British intelligence and Katangan authorities.
14. The Scramble for Africa
    White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 2003
    Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
    
15. The Slave Trade
    The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
    
16. The Socialist Register 1966
    Volume 3: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1966
    
17. Timeline of the Congo Conflict
    Against The Current vol. 142
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    

Experts on Kongo in the Sources Directory

1. African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
2. African Union
3. Economic Community of Central African States
4. La Francophonie
5. Southern African Development Community
6. United Nations